Under cloudy skies, fortuitously slotted between rain showers, the second Lobethal Grand Carnival opened the historic 8.7-mile Adelaide Hills road...
RM Auctions concluded its 2009 season on a high note in London, posting £10.9 million in total sales with a...
The 2009 Classic Motor Show, NEC, England, broke box office records when it welcomed around 48,000 visitors into its classic motoring extravaganza, an increase of around 8,000 visitors on last year’s event. Held over three days, organizers and exhibitors alike were besieged from the outset with classic fanatics flooding into every...
The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a...
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body for the 2010 Monterey Historic Automobile Races as well as the Monterey Pre-Historics. HMSA will provide rules, regulations, and oversee technical inspection. Although the Featured Marque was not announced, the...
A full field of rare Bugattis is expected for the Bugatti Grand Prix at next year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races,...
Holiday Gift Guide 2009 Oyster Perpetual Datejust II $7,525 41mm, stainless steel case, 18kt white gold fluted bezel, 31 jewel...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what the fuss is about. The team will be no more Colin than the Bugatti Veyron is Ettore. The good news is that the entrepreneur behind the revival knows the score;...
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic...
No way did Elisabeth Junek look like a racing driver. She was, well, a woman to begin with, and there...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition. These early innovators belong to an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, and genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
Automotive Fine Arts Society member Bill Neale will honor two of the greatest European marques, Jaguar and Bugatti, with new...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those horrific things are said to have happened to Captain Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams, Grand Prix winner, member of the wartime ultra-secret French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive and French...
Following Bonhams’ much publicized sale of the barn-find Bugatti Type 57S in February, Bonhams & Butterfields is extremely proud to...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the automotive industry, pilot, racecar driver, road course designer, etc., he’s done much in the world of technology. Born in Old Town, Maine, in 1911, Bill was at the forefront of...
A year or so ago, I wrote here about the number of inquiries I was receiving on my view of...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like what it might do to your dental fillings, the “Hurg” is one of the most elegant cars of the 1930s. It also reminded me about what government decisions have done...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its...
In 1909, Ettore Bugatti set up a factory, in Molsheim, France, for the production of his own line of automobiles....
A Type 35B Bugatti, which competed in the first Monaco Grand Prix and later won the Targa Florio, has been sold privately in England for what is believed to be a Bugatti world-record price of £2.5 million. The car, which boasts all of its original components, was offered for sale...
